1969 · United States Air Force
Isis 1
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ISIS 1 (International Satellite for Ionosphere Studies) was an ionospheric observatory instrumented with sweep- and fixed-frequency ionosondes, a VLF receiver, energetic and soft particle detectors, an ion mass spectrometer, an electrostatic probe, an electrostatic analyzer, a beacon transmitter, and a cosmic noise experiment.
Overview
- Date / time
- January 30, 1969 at 06:46 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2E
- Mission
- Isis 1
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Orbit achieved
- Elliptical Orbit